Hymn: Thou Hidden Love Of God Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDFGG HCICJJ KLMLCC NONOCC PLPLNN QRSTEU GVGVWW| Thou hidden love of God whose height | A |
| Whose depth unfathom'd no man knows | B |
| I see from far thy beauteous light | A |
| Inly I sigh for thy repose | B |
| My heart is pain'd nor can it be | C |
| At rest till it finds rest in thee | C |
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| Thy secret voice invites me still | D |
| The sweetness of thy yoke to prove | E |
| And fain I would but tho' my will | D |
| Seem fix'd yet wide my passions rove | F |
| Yet hindrances strew all the way | G |
| I aim at thee yet from thee stray | G |
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| 'Tis mercy all that thou hast brought | H |
| My mind to seek her peace in thee | C |
| Yet while I seek but find thee not | I |
| No peace my wand'ring soul shall see | C |
| O when shall all my wand'rings end | J |
| And all my steps to thee ward tend | J |
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| Is there a thing beneath the sun | K |
| That strives with thee my heart to share | L |
| Ah tear it thence and reign alone | M |
| The Lord of ev'ry motion there | L |
| Then shall my heart from earth be free | C |
| When it hath found repose in thee | C |
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| O hide this self from me that I | N |
| No more but Christ in me may live | O |
| My vile affections crucify | N |
| Nor let one darling lust survive | O |
| In all things nothing may I see | C |
| Nothing desire or seek but thee | C |
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| O Love thy sov'reign aid impart | P |
| To save me from low thoughted care | L |
| Chase this self will thro' all my heart | P |
| Thro' all its latent mazes there | L |
| Make me thy duteous child that I | N |
| Ceaseless may Abba Father cry | N |
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| Ah no ne'er will I backward turn | Q |
| Thine wholly thine alone I am | R |
| Thrice happy he who views with scorn | S |
| Earth's toys for thee his constant flame | T |
| O help that I may never move | E |
| From the blest footsteps of thy love | U |
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| Each moment draw from earth away | G |
| My heart that lowly waits thy call | V |
| Speak to my inmost soul and say | G |
| I am thy love thy God thy all | V |
| To feel thy power to hear thy voice | W |
| To taste thy love be all my choice | W |
John Wesley
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